Living at Yunta and Mannahill from 1964 to 1970, I still remember these beaut Garratts and unloading the tucker train for dad's store at Mannahill at 1:30 every Saturday morning, to prepare the town and stations weekly grocery and vegetable orders. Fond memories of great people manning both Yunta and Mannahill Railway services, Sadly, I remember all of the decommissioned steam locos standing forlorn outside of Peterborough for scrap. To me, that remains such a sad site and the significant end to a long era. Gee the small towns along the line also fell victims of the Standardisation and only a couple are clinging to some semblance of life.
I’m from Melbourne, over the years I rode the IP from Broken Hill to Port Pirie and noted the triple gauge yard at Peterborough and Gladstone in 1978. In 1079 I rode the old Ghan from Marree to Alice and in the ‘90s I rode the preserved train from Peterborough to Eurelia. I drove around in my car to look at the remains of Carrieton, Bruce (a residence) and the remains of the Wilmington line. Eventually I rode on the restored line from Pt Augusta to Quorn and noted the junction at the end of the yard. At the Port Pirie station I noted the timetables showing the Slow Mixed (tea and sugar train). I regret never travelling on this train but the disincentive was that you were not allowed to travel to Kalgorlie, you had to break your journey somewhere on the Nullarbor. I wondered if the train staff would have enforced this rule. There was also a Fast Mixed.
This is a very impressive presentation. Thank you for uploading it, and for your entire channel. I was living in Adelaide when these films were recorded. If I have known about the special excursions, I would have gone on as many as possible, but no-one told me about them. I did notice that, in the early 1960s, there were two Sunday trips to Reynella, and I went on two of them. I wish they had gone beyond Reynella. They were Brill trains. As a youngster, I used to follow the afternoon steam trains on my bike from Warradale to Marino in the early 1960s. The locos were Rx and F-type, pulling consists of five maroon center and end loading clerestory carriages, the last one being a baggage car. One of these trains parked the carriages in a siding at Marino each day, presumably for use the following morning. For trains which returned to Adelaide the same day, the loco ran around the train in the passing loop at Marino. All of the off-peak trains on that line were boring, but reliable, "red hens", some of which ran past Marino to Hallett's Cove.
South Africa and Rhodesia managed very well with 3'6" gauge. Everything was that gauge when I was there, 1972-1976. I was living in Jo'burg. In 1974, I traveled by Rhodesia Railways to Victoria Falls, with an overnight stopover in Bulawayo. The journey to Bulawayo was diesel, but the trip from there to Victoria Falls was an overnighter, hauled by a magnificent Bayer-Peacock Garratt. Many of those locos operated out of Bulawayo. Because of Rhodesia's isolation, they were kept going until long after my visit. (Rhodesia had lots of coal, especially at Wankie on the Vic Falls line.) The staff knew them inside out and were able to maintain them well.. I think some of them are still going.
With no audio, these old films get rather tiresome and boring! You had the option of adding music from RUclips Music Library to the soundtrack(and avoid copyright strikes) and, if you had someone willing to do so, you could've recorded a narration track to the finished transfer to digital video. Plus, a one-second transition to smooth out those scene jumps wouldn't go astray either.
@@JohnJohn-zn8ib Sought: Past participle of "Seek". I think you meant "sort". But in any case the music from RUclips Music Library isn't bad, and it would keep you out of trouble with the "copyright nazis".
@@JohnJohn-zn8ib They can be a pain in the arse! I got my fingers burned once using music I thought was royalty-free from a source called "Triple Scoop Music" that came as part of a software package for Pinnacle Video Studio 18. I got a copyright strike...... OUCH! After that I vowed not to use *ANY* music on my videos until I hit on the RUclips Music Library. I started using the tracks submitted to RUclips Music Library(which RUclips does *Not* itself own, the tracks remain the property of their respective composer/performers. They allow use by videographers as long as they get due acknowledgement for their work). I haven't had any copyright strikes since then.
Living at Yunta and Mannahill from 1964 to 1970, I still remember these beaut Garratts and unloading the tucker train for dad's store at Mannahill at 1:30 every Saturday morning, to prepare the town and stations weekly grocery and vegetable orders. Fond memories of great people manning both Yunta and Mannahill Railway services, Sadly, I remember all of the decommissioned steam locos standing forlorn outside of Peterborough for scrap. To me, that remains such a sad site and the significant end to a long era. Gee the small towns along the line also fell victims of the Standardisation and only a couple are clinging to some semblance of life.
I’m from Melbourne, over the years I rode the IP from Broken Hill to Port Pirie and noted the triple gauge yard at Peterborough and Gladstone in 1978. In 1079 I rode the old Ghan from Marree to Alice and in the ‘90s I rode the preserved train from Peterborough to Eurelia.
I drove around in my car to look at the remains of Carrieton, Bruce (a residence) and the remains of the Wilmington line.
Eventually I rode on the restored line from Pt Augusta to Quorn and noted the junction at the end of the yard.
At the Port Pirie station I noted the timetables showing the Slow Mixed (tea and sugar train). I regret never travelling on this train but the disincentive was that you were not allowed to travel to Kalgorlie, you had to break your journey somewhere on the Nullarbor. I wondered if the train staff would have enforced this rule. There was also a Fast Mixed.
This is a very impressive presentation. Thank you for uploading it, and for your entire channel. I was living in Adelaide when these films were recorded. If I have known about the special excursions, I would have gone on as many as possible, but no-one told me about them.
I did notice that, in the early 1960s, there were two Sunday trips to Reynella, and I went on two of them. I wish they had gone beyond Reynella. They were Brill trains.
As a youngster, I used to follow the afternoon steam trains on my bike from Warradale to Marino in the early 1960s. The locos were Rx and F-type, pulling consists of five maroon center and end loading clerestory carriages, the last one being a baggage car. One of these trains parked the carriages in a siding at Marino each day, presumably for use the following morning. For trains which returned to Adelaide the same day, the loco ran around the train in the passing loop at Marino.
All of the off-peak trains on that line were boring, but reliable, "red hens", some of which ran past Marino to Hallett's Cove.
South Africa and Rhodesia managed very well with 3'6" gauge. Everything was that gauge when I was there, 1972-1976. I was living in Jo'burg. In 1974, I traveled by Rhodesia Railways to Victoria Falls, with an overnight stopover in Bulawayo. The journey to Bulawayo was diesel, but the trip from there to Victoria Falls was an overnighter, hauled by a magnificent Bayer-Peacock Garratt. Many of those locos operated out of Bulawayo. Because of Rhodesia's isolation, they were kept going until long after my visit. (Rhodesia had lots of coal, especially at Wankie on the Vic Falls line.) The staff knew them inside out and were able to maintain them well.. I think some of them are still going.
A very good little video
Omg. Motion footage of a train at Eurelia. Is it possible to view the entire Hawker trip footage?
How come ever any sound ?
400 class Garratt is almost identical to 60 class Garratts of East Africa.
Where is part 1?
Part 1 refers to the Broad Gauge Operations video on this channel. I hope to release some more narrow gauge scenes in the next few weeks.
With no audio, these old films get rather tiresome and boring! You had the option of adding music from RUclips Music Library to the soundtrack(and avoid copyright strikes) and, if you had someone willing to do so, you could've recorded a narration track to the finished transfer to digital video. Plus, a one-second transition to smooth out those scene jumps wouldn't go astray either.
@Neil Forbes oh well he did his best
What sought of music, not that garbage they put on 7mate, outback truckers and similar crap.
@@JohnJohn-zn8ib Sought: Past participle of "Seek". I think you meant "sort". But in any case the music from RUclips Music Library isn't bad, and it would keep you out of trouble with the "copyright nazis".
@neilforbes416 yes sort sorry, some appropriate music would be good, I understand about the RUclips Nazis the odd bunch they are.
@@JohnJohn-zn8ib They can be a pain in the arse! I got my fingers burned once using music I thought was royalty-free from a source called "Triple Scoop Music" that came as part of a software package for Pinnacle Video Studio 18. I got a copyright strike...... OUCH! After that I vowed not to use *ANY* music on my videos until I hit on the RUclips Music Library. I started using the tracks submitted to RUclips Music Library(which RUclips does *Not* itself own, the tracks remain the property of their respective composer/performers. They allow use by videographers as long as they get due acknowledgement for their work). I haven't had any copyright strikes since then.